"Doom 2 Retexturing Project" here it comes

Hirogen2 · Post by **Hirogen2** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 1:30 pm

Hello all ZDoom users,

just this afternoon I poked on a byte sequence in a widely known lump, and what it gave me was out-f.-standing.
So there, I imported the Doom2 Retexturing Project ( http://switch.to/doom2textures ) into ZDoom 2.0.47i. Yes, it already has scalable textures!

Here are some shots. I plan to release it on Tuesday, when I get to a highspeed internet machine. The pack size is 40.8MB (ACE), 41.7 (BZ2) and 46.6MB (zip), so I plan to distribute the ACE one. Only download if you have the necessary bandwidth, time or money

Zell · Post by **Zell** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 1:46 pm

those look good, but ur pic quailty is crappy

Post by **Xaser** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 1:47 pm

Oh, so this is regular zdoom and not zdoomgl??? Wow!!!

Hirogen2 · Post by **Hirogen2** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 1:50 pm

@Zell: Yeah I had to compress it for the forum...
@Xaser: Yes, PLAIN zdoom.
And it takes some secs to load...
Here are the hi-res PNG ones...

edit:
http://linux01.org:2222/gfx/zrtx_doom_0.png
http://linux01.org:2222/gfx/zrtx_doom_1.png

Post by **Xaser** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 1:52 pm

Dang, that looks good. I'll be sure to download as soon as it's done. I only have crappy dialup connection, but I have a download manager with resumable downloads (FlashGet), and so I can DL it a little bit at a time.

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 1:56 pm

i love you hirogen2 (not that way sikko...)

i have wanted hires for so long now. i cant wait till tuesday!!!

/me goes to his time machine

Hirogen2 · Post by **Hirogen2** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 1:57 pm

It's already done, I just need to upload it, and uh, I won't through modem!

Yes, fortunately, many of the source pictures (24-bit PNGs) easily stuck to the Doom palette without any major loss of quality, it's like... a dream. Now, we just need MD2 support in plain zdoom and like we got the best port ever. (-Not ever-, there is always something to do; Get it better than Doom3, then you're finished heh)

C'mon, the original pack was 195 MB, you can have this for 40.

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 2:01 pm

i still dled the 195MB pack anyways

Zell · Post by **Zell** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 2:05 pm

wow the better looking ones...well...look better. hurry! get the fast internet connection soon! HURRY! WE MUST PLAY IN HIRES!!

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 2:12 pm

will you be doing HEX\HER too? they have packs for those too

bimshwel · Post by **bimshwel** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 4:47 pm

Why does the sky have a black line going through it? My theory: The atmosphere is a plastic ball, and that there is one of the seams.

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 5:12 pm

The hires textures were designed to be played by ports that support them natively. That's why they're 24-bit images instead of using the 256-color Doom palette. I fail to see why you need to go to the trouble of squeezing them into the limited palette, making new texture entries to handle the scaling, and then put up with the admitted compatibility issues(Incorrect sky, incorrect 2-sided textures (i.e. the grating on MAP01)), when you could simply drop them in a subdirectory of your ZDoomGL installation and have hi-res, 24-bit quality textures without any negative side-effects. You'd also gain OpenGL rendering techniques and full range of freelook, with 98% of the current ZDoom features.

Sorry, but this just seems like a collosal waste of time.

Zell · Post by **Zell** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 5:24 pm

yes, but some of us dun got opengl(or good). (me no got opengl) so this is quite accepted to me and he is already done, and it doesnt take that long to fix the 256 color thingie. but the midbars do kinda make it a little more futile. lol

Cyb · Post by **Cyb** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 5:25 pm

at least he didn't resize them first

Zell · Post by **Zell** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 5:27 pm

omg lol those suck